[OpenAFS] Implementing massive storage

John Hascall john@iastate.edu
Sat, 11 Nov 2006 13:59:55 CST


> You may know this already, but just for the record serving files by AFS
> means NOT serving them by these other means.  AFS's server structure
> dictates that.  In the situation you describe, the only likely option
> is to export luns via FC or iscsi to your afs fileservers, and have them
> serve AFS as normal.

Not *directly*.  But it is possible.
We serve AFS files via CIFS via a set of samba servers, for example.
And there was the NFS/AFS translator (which we never used, but others did).

John